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AeroVironment has recently received a DARPA phase II grant of $2.1 million USD to continue work on their humming-bird like nano-AUV. I'm always amused at how the US military spends millions every year on projects like these, yet you can buy ornithopter toys at any Walmart starting at $30 . . .

Obviously none of these are robots, but it might inspire someone here to use the flight characteristics of these machines to build an autonomous robotic ornithopter. I would love to see that- maybe I will do it myself when I have enough experience

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